Plan to Eat is a meal planning tool that combines a recipe organizer, meal planning tool, and a shopping list app all in one. It gives you a place to collect your paper and digital recipes, drag and drop them onto a calendar to build a meal plan, and generates a shopping list so you know what to buy.

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The service gives you a weekly calendar that you can drag and drop recipes onto from your personal recipe collection in order to build your meal plan. Your recipe collection can entail recipes you've saved from elsewhere on the web (they have a bookmarklet that makes this easy), recipes shared by the Plan to Eat community, or any recipes from your personal cookbooks you enter into the service. There are even mobile apps to help you browse recipes, build your plan, and organize on the go.

Once you have a meal plan set, just tell the service to build your grocery list, and it'll assemble it and show it to you so you can check it off while you're in the store. It's even organized by category so you don't have to run all over to grab the things you need.

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You will drop some coin to get the opportunity though—you can sign up for a free 30 day trial through the site to see if it's something you'd use, but beyond that you're looking at $5/mo or $40/yr. If you're looking for free alternatives, there are plenty available, but if you've been trying other services to organize your recipes or plan your meals and you haven't gotten any traction, it's definitely worth a look.